Dear Colleagues, Save the date: launch event The past year has seen wide-ranging changes in the private education sector, and BAC has been much focused on ensuring that its accreditation, along with the services it offers to colleges, remains of utmost relevance and benefit. The final touches are being put to a package of services, [...]
A private university college is set to offer degrees to the health sector - the first such courses from a for-profit provider in the UK. BPP University College is launching its School of Health, starting this autumn with courses in psychology and nursing. A three-year psychology degree will cost £15,000, at a time when many [...]
With immigration and university standards hot issues, any impropriety involving recruiters abroad could tar the sector As fishing trips go, sending an undercover reporter to trawl international student recruitment agencies until someone said something dodgy was probably the equivalent of pointing a shotgun into a small barrel. That is not to deny that The Daily [...]
UK universities are shifting attention from their traditional role of educating home students towards private and international provision, according to a survey of vice-chancellors and administrative heads. The Quiet Revolution: How Strategic Partnerships and Alliances are Reshaping the Higher Education System, a report by PA Consulting Group, has found that 42 per cent of institutions [...]
Private growth in the sector is a tender subject, but the reality is more complex than ideologues on both sides would have it It was recently suggested that Times Higher Education has a "bee in its bonnet" about private providers. As appealing as the idea of THE having a bonnet may be, the automatic reaction [...]
The government has defended the public financing of for-profit higher education providers and has said that it wants widening participation funding to be “better targeted”. The comments came in the government’s much-delayed response to a report on the coalition’s higher education reforms published in November 2011 by the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. In [...]
ICEF led a presentation at the Languages Canada conference, held recently in Vancouver, providing the audience with an insightful overview of current research and best practices for working with education agents. The session provided a country-specific overview of why students use agents, what students in each country look for when choosing where to study overseas, [...]
Private providers are to compete directly with universities for undergraduate places for the first time after the government announced that it aimed to bring them under the same controls on the number of students accessing public loans, and the same quality assurance regime, as the rest of the sector. In its long-awaited response to the [...]
A British education lawyer has called for an independent body to be set up to support international students facing unethical treatment by private education providers in the UK. The sector’s biggest accreditation body, the British Accreditation Council (BAC), has backed the idea. It follows a Huffington Post article published this week, in which international students claim [...]
Up to 10 smaller higher education institutions in England are now eligible to become universities under government changes announced on Monday. The number of students required for a university has been reduced from 4,000 to 1,000. But the government has been criticised for not introducing primary legislation in its reforms of the higher education sector. [...]